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Blender for Video Production Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Blender for Video Production Quick Start Guide Create high quality videos for YouTube and other social media platforms with Blender

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789804959
Length 176 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Allan Brito Allan Brito
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Preface 1. Blender as a Video Editor for YouTube FREE CHAPTER 2. Editing and Cutting Video Footage in Blender 3. Using Properties to Enhance Video 4. Animated Properties for Video Effects 5. Creating Intro Videos for YouTube with Text and Motion Graphics 6. Using Videos as Textures for 3D Compositions 7. Adding Sound and Voiceover for YouTube 8. Aligning 3D Content with Video Using Virtual Cameras 9. Exporting Video for YouTube 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Aligning content and rendering

Now we have got to the point where we can start rendering our project! However, if you press the F12 key to render your motion tracking file, you will probably see only the default cube from Blender. Why is that? Unless you add something to the 3D View, Compositing, or Sequencer, Blender doesn't know you want to render the video content.

For this particular project, we will use the Compositing editor to replace the tracking plane with either an image or a video.

Instead of changing the window type, we can start a new workspace. Press the + button and choose VFX | Compositing. You will see the Compositing editor (Figure 8.10):

Figure 8.10: Compositing editor

To get started, we can turn on the Use Nodes and Backdrop at the top to enable nodes and see a preview of our video in the background, respectively.

It is time to add a few nodes in the...

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